tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593390371951368920.post7641075858402562953..comments2023-12-08T21:46:19.347-05:00Comments on Colony Worlds: Solar Bamboo ForestsDarnell Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10892014932718500845noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593390371951368920.post-74172761795107943672008-06-20T21:22:00.000-04:002008-06-20T21:22:00.000-04:00This is awesome, Thanks Darnell for following up o...This is awesome, Thanks Darnell for following up on my bamboo article :-) Great bit of research there.<BR/><BR/>I hope you are well!<BR/><BR/>Cheers, IanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593390371951368920.post-72677188914561365042008-06-12T00:35:00.000-04:002008-06-12T00:35:00.000-04:00Hi Darnell, and thanks for the links. Those of us...Hi Darnell, and thanks for the links. Those of us who spent childhood time in the South Pacific are quite fond of bamboo. I also remember Captain Kirk making a cannon from a bamboo tube into and blasting the Gorn. It really has 1001 uses!L. Riofriohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02692071626849849079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6593390371951368920.post-66355185799570084872008-06-10T07:34:00.000-04:002008-06-10T07:34:00.000-04:00Very interesting and also important. My first memo...Very interesting and also important. My first memories are of Djakarta on Java, where when I was three my father was working in that notorious nest of spooks - at the time - USAID. Before that, we lived for a brief time in Saigon (now Ho Chi Mhin City, of course) and aside from ubiquitous equatorial monsoons and lizards, there was bamboo.<BR/><BR/>Later, my father planted shoots to shield the open side of a driveway in suburban DC, where it thrived and through some particularly cold winters, at least through most of the remainder of the 1960's.<BR/><BR/>Their hardiness is thus a proven thing to me, as is their exotic beauty, and usefulness. <BR/><BR/>(How elso could the Professor have fashioned such Rube Goldberg Huts as he certainly designed for "the rest" of the castaways on Gilligan's Island?)<BR/><BR/>Those semi-buried poly-material shelters on the Moon we may soon be experimenting with could find many uses for this plant to cozy up an otherwise drab Regolete igloo with these marching across the wall, as pioneer plants of the Value-Added lunar "soil."<BR/><BR/>That they produce suce prodigious amounts of O2 is wonderful news.<BR/><BR/>Very good stuff, and thought provoking. What else could we need?<BR/><BR/>Thanks!Joel Raupehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10479149035458870955noreply@blogger.com